I'm so glad that this sequal is getting off to such a great start! :D Thanks to everyone who reviewed, favorited and or is following this story. Speaking of reviews, lets respond to them shall we?
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The smurfs, Johan and Peewit belong to Peyo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 belongs to Disney
Jo belongs to CartoonCaster21
And Gian belongs to me. Speaking of Gian, I forgot to mention in the last chapter that he plays Zephyr. Though, ya'll probably figured that out already.
Anyway enjoy! :)
As the villagers finished their song, Peewit snuck over to Norte Dame. Once he reached the door, he stopped and looked over his shoulder, almost giving a sort of sad look at the crowd before quickly disappearing inside.
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"Ah! Observe the rituals of human courtship as citizens gather two by two." Brainy sighed looking down at the people from the cathedral.
"Looks like there's somesmurf for everysmurf." Smurfette agreed smiling blissfully.
"Indeed Smurfette." Papa Smurf nodded.
"Alas, too bad there's only one of me, Brainy Smurf to go around." Brainy smirked.
"Believe me lad. One is plenty." Gutsy grumbled.
"Thank you...Hey! Was that a shot?"
"Maybe." Gutsy grinned smiling cheekily.
"Take that back!"
"No."
"Take that-" but the glasses wearing smurf was interrupted when his Scottish brother grabbed him and then tossed him aside. "BAAACK!"
Peewit had been coming up the stairs and had just arrived but immediately had to jump aside as Brainy flew past him and smacked right into the wall. Gutsy busted out laughing but fell silent seeing the stern glare shot his way by the red clad wizard. "Ehe...Sorry Papa."
Brainy peeled himself off the wall and floated down to the floor while Peewit went over and sat the yellow rose he had been carrying in a paint pot. He sighed quietly and looked at the flower for a few seconds lost in deep thought.
"Are you guys going to fight all day or help me get ready for the festival?" Peewit asked snapping out of his trance.
"There he is in his triumphant return." Papa smiled as he stopped mid-scolding Gutsy. He and the other smurfs followed after Peewit. "Dashing gandabout town eh?"
"Get the smurf out Brainy." Peewit said picking up the still slightly dazed smurf. "We gotta polish La Fidele."
"And whats the festival," Smurfette started
"Without de bell?" Gutsy added.
"Or the bell ringer?" Papa finished.
Peewit rolled his eyes in amusement and climbed up the ladder till he reached La Fidele. On the outside, La Fidele looked pretty much like all the others. But that was not the case. La Fidele was special for on the inside, the bell was lined with jewels. Rubies, sapphires, pearls, diamonds, emeralds and many other gems glistened and sparkled inside the bell. Because it was so prescious, it was only rung once a year on the Festival D'Amour.
Anyway, Peewit made it up the ladder and pulled out his rag but just as he was about to begin polishing...
"Toro! Toro!"
Peewit whipped around and held back a laugh seeing a little boy with thick shaggy brown hair and deep chocolate brown eyes wearing a loose fitting green tunic over a quarter-sleeved cream colored tee-shirt and brown tights. The child snorted and scrapped his foot across the floor sticking his hands on his head like horns, acting like a bull.
Peewit smirked and turned around, holding his rag like a bull fighters cape. "Toro! Toro!"
"CHAAAARGE!" the little boy bellowed charging full steam ahead. Peewit stood his ground and lifted the 'cape' over the child as he charged through. Both of them began laughing as the little boy then climbed on Peewit shoulders.
"Gian, you have got to slow down." Savina laughed a little bit out of breath as she climbed up the stairs and joined them.
"Oookkkaaayyy...Mmmoooommm." Gian said slowly.
"Listen to your mother young man." Johan chuckled as he climbed up the ladder after his wife.
"Yes Papa." Gian smiled. Savina smiled at her son but then noticed La Fidele.
"Look at her." The gypsy said in awe. Almost as if in a daze, she went over to the jewel encrested bell and laid a hand on the outside. "La Fidele you are magnificent."
"Are you gonna ring it once for my Momma, Uncle Peewit?" Gian asked Peewit.
"You bet he is." Johan answered for the bellringer, going over to his wife. "And your mother's gonna be in the square screaming loudly into the night, 'I love my husband Johan.'
"Oh really?" Savina smirked crossing her arms. "And what make you think I'm gonna shout so loudly?"
"You'll have to to be heard over me shouting, 'I LOVE SAVINA!'
The captain of the guards grabbed the gypsy girl and swung her around. Savina laughed and once he sat her on her feet, they kissed.
"YUCK!" Gian gagged.
"Yeah..." Peewit said quietly. "...yuck..." He lifted his 'nephew' off his shoulders and sat him down then ducked under La Fidele to begin polishing the gems.
"Who's name are you gonna yell Uncle Peewit?" Gian asked peeking under the bell.
"No one I guess." Peewit said sadly.
"Then who's gonna scream your name?"
It was an innocent question really. Still though, it made Peewit's heart twist painfully. "...I don't think anyone ever will Gian,"
"Wh-why not?" Gian frowned beginning to grow sad for his friend. Peewit had began polishing one of the gems but stopped staring sadly at his reflection. He looked away not wanting to look at his face.
Savina had heard the whole conversation and ducked under the bell to go comfort her friend. She went over and placed her hands on his shoulders.
"Peewit, it takes more than looking to really see." she gently took his chin in her hand and made him look back at his reflection. "Someday you'll be ready and when you are you'll find her."
Peewit looked at Savina, his first friend and for a short while, his first love. He still loved her but not like before. He now realized that Johan was meant for her and she for him but he still loved her in a different sense. Savina was the first person to ever show him true kindness. He was very grateful to have her in his life but at the same time, she was also a living reminder of what would never happen. Who could possibly love someone as ugly as him?
"Someday? Nah." he sighed. "What could possibly ever change?"
Savina smiled sympathetically and hugged him. Suddenly music was heard and Gian quickly ducked out from under the bell and ran to the window.
"Oh boy! Wow it's the circus!"
Indeed it was. Down below was a parade of stilt walkers, giraffes, jugglers, acrobats, and elephants pulling colorful wagons behind them. The crowd gathered around and cheered in excitement.
"Come mes amis!" Gerard announced. "As part of the Festival D'Amour, a circus has come to Paris!"
The gypsy king gestured a colorful wagon with Circ de Malcolm written on the side in fancy gold lettering. It opened up and a group of children excitedly rushed over. A puff of smoke appeared and a man dressed in a black and white vertical stripe poncho and a matching bird like mask appeared.
"Come one come all! To the Circ de Malcolm. See juggling clowns."
The man pulled out three balls and juggled them.
"Firebreathers."
He tossed the balls aside and an ember of green fire burst in his hands.
"And magic."
Malcolm extinguished the flames and then proceeded to pull a rabbit out of his hat. A large purple box with yellow moons and a stars slid out from behind him. "And now, may I present to you the prettiest ornament on the midway..." He opened the box and revealed it to be empty before closing it again. He tapped it the box with his wand. "My assistant Joan-" he opened the box and it was till empty. He quickly closed the box and tried again. "Eheh, my assistant Joan-" he opened the box again and it was still empty.
"It's empty." One kid said.
"There's no one there." Another kid said.
"Well-well of coarse not." Malcolm quickly said shutting the box. "You have to come to the circus to see her." He threw down a smoke bomb and disappeared in a puff of smoke, causing the children to cheer.
Once back behind stage, Malcolm found his assistant and grabbed him by the shirt, pulling the smaller man very close to his face. "Where is Joannie?"
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"Madams and Monsiuers, kindly direct your attention above, as the Jaw-Dropping Joannie, is about to perform her daring highwire act." a young woman with short black hair, and blue eyes, wearing a dark blue, long tunic over a pair of white tights and a purple long-sleeved shirt said as she stood on a rope that wasn't to far off the ground. She didn't have any shoes on at the moment but a pair of brown ankle high boots sat nearby. "Without a net-Oops!"
Joannie about lost her balance but quickly caught herself. "And the crowd goes wild! Aah! Aah! A hush falls over the crowd as Jo begins her graceful high-wire act." She tried to walk again but started falling. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! OH!" Quickly Jo ran over to the other end and grabbed onto the poled to stop herself from falling. "Jo catches her breath, having nearly plummeted to her death...And the crowd BURSTS into applause as they scream for more! Encore! Thank you! Your too kind."
"Where where you?"
Jo let out a yelp of surprise and fell off the rope onto the ground.
"My little trinket." Malcolm finished walking into the room, standing over Jo intimidatingly.
"W-Well I-I-I-I was standing." Jo stammered sitting up. "W-Well of coarse I've been s-standing, I haven always been sitting. That would be...stupid, I guess." Jo answered feeling stupid, hanging her head. "I'm sorry. I-I just want to contribute more to the circus."
"Your job is to stand there and look pretty." Malcolm said entering the tent. He went over to a nearby mirror and began to admire himself. "Hello handsome." he said to his reflection. "Ooh, lovely."
"I want to contribute more." Jo spoke up.
"And you shall my little eclair. I have the perfect job for you." Malcolm reassured as he went over to the entrance of the tent and looked at Notre Dame in the distance. "Up in the tower of Notre Dame, is a bell of extraodinary value. I want you to go up there and find our which is the bell called La Fidele."
Jo sighed disappointedly. "Why?"
"I mean to steal it silly. I'll be rich. I can travel the world in style, in comfort and-"
"No, I mean, why must we always steal?" Jo asked. "I mean I was thinking-"
"Thinking?!" Malcolm laughed. "Haha! Not your strong suit is it my little bonbon?"
Jo clenched her fist in anger.
"No. Thinking is my strong suit." Malcolm said suddenly growing serious. "And where would you be without me?"
Jo's anger melted away and was replaced with sadness. She sighed looking down, unclenching her fist. "On the streets."
"Prescisley. For it's a cold world out there..."
"For a girl like me." Jo sighed. "What do I do?"
"Lovely." Malcolm chuckled. "There's a bellringer that lives in the tower. Smile at him, wile and beguile him. And he'll tell you exactly what I want to know."
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The bells were ringing as Peewit pushed the bells two at a time over to the smurfs. When the bells neared the smurfs, they reached over and polished the bells with tiny little rags. Granted it was slow work considering how small the smurfs were, but it was effective nonetheless.
Little did they know that Jo had just entered the cathedral. She looked around and began to follow the ringing up the stairs. "Uh...Hello?"
Peewit instantly froze. Aside from the Archdeacon, Johan, Savina and Gian, no one ever went up to the belltower, let alone a woman.
"Lassie alert." Gutsy said excitedly.
"And what a lovely vision at that." Papa Smurf mused as he and the other smurf looked down at Jo from the rafters.
"What am I, smurfed liver?" Smurfette asked insulted.
"I'm looking for the bellringer." Jo called still trying to find...well anyone really.
"She wants you Peewit!" Brainy exclaimed, only to turn around and see that Peewit had disappeared. The smurfs easily found him due to his feet sticking out from underneath a curtain.
"Is anyone here?" Jo called climbing up the ladder and was now on there level. The smurfs quickly disappeared behind the curtain with Peewit just as she looked where they had been.
"Get out there Peewit!" Smurfette hissed as she and the others tried to shove him out.
"I-I can't! What would I say?" Peewit whispered.
"Open your mouth, something will smurf out." Papa suggested.
Peewit just made a bunch of unintelligable noises.
"Nothin came out." Gutsy deadpanned.
"M-my name is Jo." Jo called. "Well it's actually Joannie, but I prefer to be called Jo. And before you ask, no it's not a man's name. Without the E, it's just short for Joannie."
Peewit couldn't help but smile in amusement. He was thinking at first that it was a boy's name..
"I'm with the circus and..." Jo trailed off a little bit as she lifted a cover off a table, revealing the replica of the village. "Oh I just love bells and-whoop!" she accidentally knocked a couple of figurines over but quickly fixed them. "Which one is La Fidele?"
"De bells ya ninny! She likes de bells!" Gutsy hissed as he and the smurfs pushed harder against Peewit. Somehow, despite the size difference, the four finally managed to push the blonde boy out in the open.
"Smurf sharp!"Brainy whispered as Peewit scrambled to hide again. Hearing something Jo turned around and once again saw nothing.
"Are...Are you hiding from me?"
"No." Peewit answered.
She looked around and finally spotted a pair of legs sticking out from under a bell. She giggled at the sight.
"What's so funny?" Peewit asked still hiding under the bell.
"Nothing it's just...it looks like your wearing a really big hat." Jo laughed again before stopping, feeling embarrassed. "Oh, that...that sounds silly doesn't it?"
"No, I just never looked at it that way before." Peewit said. Now that she mentioned it, he guessed he did look pretty silly from her perspective. Peewit started to laugh and Jo joined in.
"Yes! It's uh, it's a brass beret." Jo joked. "A two-ton topper."
Peewit laughed harder and dinged the bell a little. "A chapeu in c-sharp!"
They both laughed. Jo spotted something blue out of the corner of her eye and gasped.
"What is it?" Peewit asked peeking out from under the bell a little.
"I-I-I saw something blue!" Jo stuttered looking where she had seen the flash of movement.
"The smurfs." Peewit whispered to himself.
"Like-like these little blue men things." Jo said backing away a little but but then calmed down. "But that's dumb. Isn't it?"
Now Peewit could really see Jo's face. Her eyes were so blue. Even from this high up he could clearly see those two blue orbs. And her hair! It looked so...so soft. And her face...She was really pretty. Beautiful even.
"No." he said gently.
Jo, still feeling really embarrassed looked down and started walking a little. Peewit left from under the bell and began walking along the rafters above her, making sure to keep to the shadows so she couldn't see his face.
"Ugh! You must think I'm stupid, huh?" Jo asked embarrassed.
"Not at all." Peewit said. "It just means you have an imagination."
"Do you really think so?" Jo asked looking up.
"I do." Peewit said as he lept down to her level and hid behind a stone head.
"What's your name?" Jo asked coming over to the head.
"P-Peewit." Peewit answered shyly.
"Well Peewit, wouldn't you like to come where I can see you?" Jo asked holding out her hand to him.
Peewit answered her by slinking further behind the stone head. Jo frowned and took her hand back. She spotted a curtain next to her and moved it down. The sunlight instantly streamed in, hitting Peewit's hiding spot. Peewit covered his head with his hands being blinded by the sudden light. Jo put her hands to her mouth in shock.
"I h-ha-ha-have to go." Jo quickly said and then began to run away. "I'm sorry."
Peewit watched the woman hurry down the ladder, down the stairs and eventually out of the church completely. Peewit looked down hurt. He sadly went over to his replica of the town, grabbed a knife and a piece of wood and began to carve a new figure.
"Oh poor Peewit." Smurfette said sympathetically.
Papa, Brainy and Gutsy just looked at Peewit sadly as Smurfette went over to him. She climbed up on the table and walked closer. "Are you okay?"
"No." Peewit answered truthfully. "You saw how she looked at me."
"Well then, get her to look again, Peewit." Smurfette smiled gently. Peewit just looked down at the carving he was making of Jo. He attached her left arm and then studied the thing for a moment. A small smile pulled at his lips.
"Do you believe in miracles?"
"Miracles?" Smurfette asked. "What kind of miracles?"
"Oh you know, just ordinary miracles." Peewit replied not looking away from the carving of Jo.
"I'm afraid I'm not following Peewit." Smurfette said shaking her head confused.
"Well, I see people together. Couples. And it looks so nice being with someone who loves you." Peewit explained. He took out the carving of himself and sat it on the replica of the bridge. "I guess I'm just wondering if...Maybe someone could love me."
He then further explained his feelings in song.
Imagine someone to love who loves you
Imagine to look in her eyes and see
Imagine how miraculous it seems to be
But it's not so very rare
You can find it anywhere
Peewit finished the carving of Jo and then put it next to the carving of himself. He then started moving around the bell tower.
It's an ordinary miracle
The kind you find around you
Every single day
Or maybe it's seasonal
Like spring and May
There's so many
He took the yellow rose from out of it's water filled paint pot and looked at it.
The ordinary miracle
The common kind of miracle
That runs right by
Or maybe it's to gradual to catch your eye
So you miss it
Peewit climbed back up the ladder and gave the rose to Smurfette. She smiled dreamily and sniffed the rose. Peewit climbed up to one of the rafters and hung upside down next to a baby bat and it's mother.
A sudden bolt of distant lightning
Cathedrals rising out of stone
A baby starts to talk and walk one day
Then shockingly he's grown and in love
Peewit lept down from the rafter onto a bell, ran down the bell and used the rope to land on his hands on a rafter then landed on his feet on the floor. He then lept back onto the rafter on his hands then began to walk on his hands.
A volcano of emotions
Not ten-thousand gypsy potions
Can undo
Yes it's true
Of coarse my view is slanted
But people do take love for granted
Sad, but true
Brainy and Gutsy looked at him confused but Papa Smurf smiled to himself knowingly. Peewit was beginning to fall in love.
Peewit moved outside and climbed up the side of the building and watched as a butterfly hatched from it's cocoon. He lifted his finger and allowed the butterfly to rest on his finger, smiling as he continued singing.
Of all the many miracles
Mysterious and marvelous
And big and small
When people fall in love it really beats them all
Oh to see it
To feel it
To know it
The butterfly flew inside and around the smurfs. Brainy freaked out a little and backed away, tripping onto his back. The butterfly circled around Smurfette before landing on her finger.
Imagine someone to love who loves you
Imagine to look in here eyes and see
Imagine how extraordinary
Peewit continued climbing to the top until reached the roof. He then went back inside and looked at the carvings of himself and Jo. His happy tone turning sad as he finished the song, doubting that an ordinary miracle like love would ever happen to someone like him.
If an ordinary miracle
Happened to me
And here is where we meet the newest members of the cast. Lol
If Jo seems a little bit out of character, well she's supposed to be. Once you here her backstory that'll be mentioned in the next chapter, you'll understand why.
Hope you all enjoyed. I'll update in a week. Don't forget to review. Bye!